On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:18:37 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Joey Hess: >> I think we've taken this "security bugs arn't fixed in testing as well >> as in stable" thing as gospel a little too long without verifying it >> lately. I've been checking and if testing is lagging stable at all, it's >> doing so by a much smaller amount than we've traditionally thought. > >I think that's because of the pending release, in particular frozen >base packages, and not representative for the whole release cycle.
Additionally, Maintainers refrain from updating unstable because they need unstable to update testing. See exim4, which has a grossly outdated version in unstable because there is no testing-proposed-updates yet. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
